The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

It had come as no great surprise to Matson that the hot water in the showers didn't work, that Loren Severe had thrown up all over the stairs, or that some thieving bastard of a cop had walked off with his cigarettes.

To their surprise, the children all were eager and quite able to take part.

If that's all the Romans did, it's a surprise to me that Rome fell.

At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!

The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!

* 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of " all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam " effective November 1.

Wiseman said the joke contained all three elements of what makes a good gag: anxiety, a feeling of superiority and an element of surprise.

To the surprise of many, he was at the throttle of the very first MU ( Multiple-Unit ) train to depart Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, driving the train all the way to Dover.

Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.

At Toulouse, Odo managed a basic surprise attack against an overconfident and unprepared foe, all of whose defensive works were aimed inward, while he attacked from the outside.

At Bordeaux, and again at the Battle of the River Garonne, the Umayyad forces were cavalry, not infantry, and were not taken by surprise, and given a chance to mass for battle, which led to the devastation of Odo's army, almost all of whom were killed with minimal losses to the Muslims.

The Persian forces became increasingly demoralized with the constant threat of a surprise attack from Alexander, leading to many desertions and eventually a coup led by Bessus, a satrap, and Nabarzanes, who managed all audiences with the King and was in charge of the palace guard.

But in all other areas, he considered Mozart the ideal, with the perfect balance between " classical symmetry and the element of surprise ", and with works of clarity, perfect craftsmanship, and measured amounts of lyricism.

To their surprise, the team found that the Apollo rocks carried an isotopic signature that was identical with rocks from Earth, and were different from almost all other bodies in the Solar System.

From an economic perspective, the Republic of the United Provinces completely outperformed all expectations ; it was a surprise to many that a nation not based on the church or on a single royal leader could be so successful.

With his ship accurately described by the survivors of U-93, Sanders and his crewmen were all killed in action when they attempted a surprise attack on on 14 August 1917.

A few days later, Operation Musketeer needed the element of total surprise to succeed, and all 660 men had to be on the ground at El Gamil airfield and ready for action within four and a half minutes.

* While King Fuchai of Wu attends a meeting in Huangchi, in an attempt to gain hegemony over all the other duchies of Zhou Dynasty China, his capital city in the State of Wu is captured in a surprise assault by King Goujian of Yue.

Since in the Ulam spiral adjacent diagonals are alternatively odd and even numbers, it is no surprise that all prime numbers lie in alternate diagonals of the Ulam spiral.

" Caxton would have found nothing to surprise him if he had walked into the Press's printing house in the eighteenth century: all the type was still being set by hand ; wooden presses, capable of producing only 1, 000 sheets a day at best, were still in use ; and books were still being individually bound by hand.

However, he was treated to a surprise: Admiral François Darlan — the commander of all French forces — was also in Algiers on a private visit.

:" and great was the surprise of those who viewed these curtains at a distance, for they seemed not at all to differ from the color of the sky " — Josephus ( c. 94 CE )

As the ambush was no longer a surprise the Roman troops all shouted together, which was the prearranged signal to Lucretius's men on the hill.

This live-to-tape segment comprised all cast members and occasional surprise celebrities dancing before a 1960s " Mod " party backdrop, delivering one-and two-line jokes interspersed with a few bars of dance music ( later adopted on The Muppet Show, which had a recurring segment that is similar to " The Cocktail Party " with absurd moments from characters ).

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

He saw the surprise in her face, and laughed as though it were the funniest expression he had ever seen.

After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.

* German leadership rejected Hartenstein's cease fire proposal, partly because Admiral Raeder did not think it wise to enter into a " deal " with the Allies, nothing was to interfere with Eisbär's surprise attack on Cape Town to strike at the supplies destined for the British and Soviets, and Hitler had directed that no word of Laconias sinking or the proposed Axis rescue be transmitted to the Allies, though subordinates ignored Hitler's orders and communicated messages to the Allies about the proposed rescue attempt.

The show was recorded ( though only Sutch knew ), and it was released to the surprise of the musicians.

It is true that Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the United States, and moreover seems to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had become a blunder — even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Although the communists were severely depleted by the heavy fighting at Khe Sanh when their conventional assaults were battered by American firepower, as well as tens of thousands of deaths in the Tet Offensive, American political opinion and the panic engendered by the communist surprise sapped US support for the war, even though the events of early 1968 put the US and South Vietnam into a much stronger military position.

Joule was a pupil of Dalton and it is no surprise that he had learned a firm belief in the atomic theory, even though there were many scientists of his time who were still sceptical.

During the trip Bokko, Nokko, and Pukko revert to their humanoid forms for the first time, much to the surprise of Shinichi, who had never seen their true appearances before ( perhaps not clearly, anyway-he had also seen them through the window of their saucer in the first episode, though it's suggested in the episode that he could only see their silhouettes ).

It has nothing like the meaning of the adjective OK, which in the earliest recorded examples means'all right, good ,' though it later acquires other meanings, but even when used as an interjection does not express surprise, expostulation, or anything similar.

He applied for the advertised position of TAA Operations Manager, but to his surprise and delight, was instead offered an appointment as General Manager — though at £ 3, 000 pa, not the £ 10, 000 that had been offered to Holyman.

Charles Osborne: " Cards on the Table is one of Agatha Christie's finest and most original pieces of crime fiction: even though the murderer is, as the author has promised, one of the four bridge players, the ending is positively brilliant and a complete surprise.

Whately's appointment by Lord Grey to the see of Dublin came as a great surprise to everybody, for though a decided Liberal Whately had stood aloof from political parties, and ecclesiastically his position was that of an Ishmaelite fighting for his own hand.

Faced with record trade and budget deficits, though with an otherwise stable economy, the new Economy Minister, Celestino Rodrigo proceeded to apply " shock therapy ," ordering a surprise halving of the peso's value and, by forcing those who could to stampede towards the U. S. dollar, destroying the fragile financial balance that had been maintained to that point.

All numerical evidence then available seemed to suggest that π ( x ) is always less than li ( x ), though mathematicians familiar with Riemann's work on the Riemann zeta function would probably have realized that occasional exceptions were likely by the argument given below ( and the claim sometimes made that Littlewood's result was a big surprise to experts seems doubtful ).

The biggest surprise of all is Trinny and Susannah's acting ability, which is astonishingly convincing, even though, as they cheerfully point out, they're only playing hyperbolised versions of themselves.

The biggest surprise of all is Trinny and Susannah's acting ability, which is astonishingly convincing, even though, as they cheerfully point out, they're only playing hyperbolised versions of themselves.

To both of their surprise, though, the phone rings, and Johnny, overjoyed, answers it.

Further treachery and military licence rendered the battles of Maharajpur and Punniar ( fought on the same day ), inevitable though they were, a surprise to the combatants.

An American visiting Australasia in the 1850s heard to his surprise that both MacLeay and Swainson were living there, and imagined that they had been exiled to the Antipodes ' for the great crime of burdening zoology with a false though much laboured theory which has thrown so much confusion into the subject of its classification and philosophical study '.

The existence of these relatively young ( though evolved ) stars was a surprise to experts, who expected the tidal forces from the central black hole to prevent their formation.

He was imprisoned on suspicion of complicity in the attempt made by James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and Patrick Gray, 6th Lord Gray to surprise the king at Falkland in June 1592 ; and though he obtained his release, he was again proclaimed a rebel on account of the discovery of his signature to two of the Spanish Blanks, unwritten sheets subscribed with the names of the chief conspirators in a plot for a Spanish invasion of Scotland, to be filled up later with the terms of the projected treaty.

Lucas ' 1998 victory came as something of a surprise even though Democrats have a substantial majority in registration.